Peacock Visual Arts - feature clips

Clips from moving image work by Peacock visual arts, Scotland's premiere visual arts organisation. Peacock Visual Arts was established in 1974 as a printmaking workshop, the first of its type to be set up in the North-East of Scotland.

The facility has gradually developed from a traditional printmaking workshop producing original prints to a centre for the promotion of art and all aspects of visual media.

Featured clips include excerpts from:

Jitterboy (A film about entering and celebrating the private world of a seven-year-old - pure, contagious boy energy, a place where physicality and imagination fuse & set to background music. More about Jitterboy on Video Dance 2004 website) -  by Ani Tchakmadjian, Calum TC Tchakmakdjian, Adam Proctor and Ziggy Campbell. 7.39 mins. Spring 2004

‘the Life and Death of Samuel Johnson’ (an animated film almost cartoon like, starts with camera panning to a building.  Text reads 1763, Slains Castle Scotland.  Then to two characters in what appears to be a study/ library, one person pacing (human heads superimposed on cartoon bodies).  Text reads ' what comes between dictionary and didaction?.  Pause. Camera focuses on one character until eureka moment is achieved.  Text reads 'Dictum!!! Set to background music by Louise Forbes). 6.48 mins. August 2004

‘Ritual’ (set to background music - excerpt shows feathers in a bowl being blown away.  Then woman emptying wooden box of grain onto floor, onto woman kneeling, then to a hand putting each grain back into the box one by one)– Lisa Kirton, Adam Proctor and Ziggy Campbell. 3.26 Mins. Spring 2004